Software Engineer - Robotic Applications
Role summary
Diligent Robotics is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Robotic Applications to join their team. This role involves enhancing the core robotics platform, including task management, behavior orchestration, motion planning, localization, and controls. You will collaborate with the Embodied AI team to deploy and evaluate autonomy models, including Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and AI-generated manipulation behaviors, on real robots operating in hospitals. The position requires strong C++ and Python skills, core robotics expertise, and experience shipping software on physical systems in real-world environments. You will contribute to architecture decisions, build testing infrastructure, and mentor teammates to ensure high-quality releases and operational excellence.
What we’re doing isn’t easy, but nothing worth doing ever is.
We envision a future powered by robots that work seamlessly with human teams. At Diligent Robotics, we build artificial intelligence that enables service robots to collaborate with people and adapt to dynamic, human-filled environments.
Diligent is one of the only companies in the world operating a production fleet of mobile manipulation robots in real environments. Every day, our robots work alongside hospital staff, generating the real-world data needed to advance the next generation of Physical AI. If you’re excited about building autonomy that actually works outside the lab, this is one of the most interesting places you can do that work.
As a Software Engineer – Robotic Applications, you will help strengthen and extend our core robotics platform, from task management and behavior orchestration to motion planning, localization, and controls. Working closely with our Embodied AI team, you will deploy, integrate, and evaluate autonomy models on real robots operating in hospitals. This work will include one of the first production-scale deployments of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and AI-generated manipulation behaviors, bringing the latest advances in embodied AI into real-world operation.
Your work will directly impact how robots behave in the real world, helping us continuously improve the reliability, robustness, and usefulness of autonomy in complex human environments.